Something is happening!

Something is happening!

This week, week eight we had a speaker come in and speak on Lordship. What it means to have Jesus as Lord. To follow Him with radical obedience, and to experience the freedom, grace and love that comes with that.

Earlier in the week, I was getting frustrated because I felt like I was operating below the potential that God has for me. I was trying to become level with the people around me, but we’re all at different levels and and different points in our walk with God.

God spoke to me and said, “Fia, be the thermostat, not the thermometer.” Don’t measure the temperature, SET the temperature.

On Wednesday afternoon, I felt like God wanted me to write a song, and dance in the classroom. I felt a very strong impression from God to do it, and do it THAT afternoon! I grabbed the guitar, got inspiration for lyrics, melody, everything, within an hour. I haven’t written a complete song in maybe 1-2 years?

Then, we had the afternoon off so I went to the classroom and was in there by myself. I put on the Ipod, and began to worship God with my everything, with song, movement, dance... it was great yet scary because I had not danced here yet. Things have been a little conservative lately. I was praying for our class, for the students, and pretty much doing dance-intercession in there! Worship-dance is so powerful!

So here I am dancing in the classroom, and some of my classmates walk in, and they want to stay. Uhh... okay....

Courage: not being fearless, but looking fear right in the face and going for it anyway.

So I dance like they aren’t there. After all, it shouldn’t matter. I’m not performing, I’m dancing for an audience of one and that’s Jesus.

Our relationship with God is deeply personal, but should not be private.

So I’m just going for it, having so much fun and getting more and more breakthrough in my own life as what usually happens when I worship. Fear of man being looked straight in the face and broken off! Yes Lord!

The two that stayed were both blown away and so encouraged....they’d never seen anything like it, and thought that I was following steps, but I told them I didn’t know what the next step was, I just did it.
One of them wrote me a note saying, “Your dancing really touched me... I am so amazed at your passion and that you go for the Lord 100% all the time no matter what!”

Then, one guy who was really shy about playing the guitar, picked up the guitar and played the coolest acoustic freestyle music! In front of people!

THAT afternoon,
IT RAINED.
A downpour.

It was the first rainfall since I’ve been here.
Something was changing...
Thank you Jesus.

On Friday we had the coolest day yet! It was the final day of Lordship lectures and it was the application time where we laid down at the cross things that were hindering us from Jesus truly being Lord of our life. Some people surrendered their past relationships with ex-boyfriends, visions/plans they had made for their future, pride, control, etc. “I step down from the throne of my own life, and I want you to be rightly Lord.”


We also got to give back to God the gifts that He gave us and lay them down saying, “They’re yours, not mine. Thank you for them, and I want to consecrate them to you!”

(1 Corinthians 4:7 “What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?”)

We laid down bank cards (symbolizing money/ bank accounts),
pictures of family and those dear to us... I also laid down all the gifts of creativity God has given me that are precious to me:
sketchbooks...
writing...
art...
sewing...
calligraphy...
musical ability/songwriting.... I played the song on the guitar that God had just given me two days before,
and dance... I danced to a song that I love, it was full of freedom and joy and fun! God’s grace was surely on me to do that with all my team in the room. But I didn’t care! It HAD to be done! One girl told me later that she was almost in tears.
And most importantly... my self. I am so thankful for my life, but once again it belongs to Jesus, there is no other safer hands that I would want to hold it.

After we all did that, we were so aware of the presence of God!
It was awesome. Yet very humbling. I was confronted with Jesus the King. Not just Jesus my buddy, but also Jesus the King of kings, Lord of lords, worthy-to-open-the-scroll Jesus. He is Worthy.
God brought me to Revelation chapter 5, the description of the Throneroom, and I couldn’t get past the 2nd verse without weeping. I thought I was worthy. I was so humbled.
(Go ahead and read it for yourself!)

Yeah from there, God really got to grab hold of me in a deeper way, and revealed areas that I still wanted control of on my life.
I felt like I was in a refiner’s fire, and small yet significant impurites were being brought to the surface and the gold (which is me) was becoming purified and more clear. It took till the next day for me to finally yield. And with that, an increased freedom and joy! God is so good!

Later that day, the girl who almost cried during my dancing said she wanted so badly to do worship dance in the classroom!
And other girls wanted to join her!
I got so excited that they were taking initiative and going for it!

Later that night, and I went to pop in to see if the worship session was still going...
I was so blessed to see what I saw.
About a dozen people were in there! They had been going for 2 hours! Music blaring, singing, dancing, praying, prophesying...

Oh and guess what,
for the 2nd time this year,
It RAINED that day.

!!!
Come Holy Spirit!


2 Cor 3:17
“Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.”

Be the thermostat, not the thermometer. Obey God, and see what happens!